NAME

       daisy-player - player for DAISY Digital Talking Books or Audio-CD's

SYNOPSIS

       daisy-player [directory_with_a_Daisy-structure |
       Daisy_book_archive] [-c cdrom_device] [-d ALSA_sound_device] [-i]
       [-n | -y]

DESCRIPTION

       Daisy-player  reads  a  Daisy-CD  and  plays  the  audio-files.   DAISY versions 2.02 and 3 are currently
       supported, as well as volumes with multiple books.

       Daisy-player also can play Audio-CD's and tries to get CD-information from a cddb-database.

       A list of items on the Daisy-CD or Audio-CD will appear. Press <ENTER> to start playing. When reading  of
       an item has finished, daisy-player will play the next item and the cursor will automatically skip to that
       item, so that an attached braille-terminal will display the name of that item.

OPTIONS

       directory_with_a_Daisy-structure
              One could also give a directory with a daisy structure as argument to daisy-player.

       Daisy_book_in_ZIP_format
              One could also give a file in ZIP-format with a daisy structure as  argument to daisy-player.

       -c cdrom_device
              Use  DEVICE  as  the  CD  device. DEVICE is the device special file name of the CD-ROM device. The
              default is /dev/sr0.

       -d ALSA_sound_device
              Daisy-player will play on this sound device. Default is "hw:0".

       -i     Ignore reading of the bookmark.

       -n     Don't fetch cddb-information of an Audio-CD from the internet.

       -y     Fetch cddb-information of an Audio-CD from the internet.

SCREEN

       The name and version of this program and the name of the author will be displayed left aligned at the top
       of the screen. The name of the current loaded book will be displayed right aligned.

       The second row of the screen will display the number of pages of the current loaded book  (if  any),  the
       current  selected  level  and  the  total number of levels, the total playing time, the current displayed
       screen and the total number of screens.

       The next rows will display the title of the item, the first page of the item within  brackets  (if  there
       are pages) and the playing time. Items in higher levels will be indented. (Three spaces each level.) When
       "just playing this item" is active, a "J" will be viewed at the first column of that item.

CONTROL KEYS

       Daisy-player recognizes the following keyboard-commands:

       cursor down,2
              move cursor to the next item

       cursor up,8
              move cursor to the previous item

       cursor right,6
              skip to next phrase

       cursor left,4
              skip to previous phrase

       page-down,3
              view next screen

       page-up,9
              view previous screen

       enter  Start playing

       space,0
              pause/resume playing

       home,* play on normal speed

       /      search for a label

       d      store current item to disk

       D,-    decrease playing speed

       e,.    stop playing and eject

       f      find the currently playing item and place the cursor there

       g      go to time in this item or song (MM:SS)

       G (DAISY-CD)
              go to page number (if any)

       h,?    give this help

       j,5    just play current item and place a "J" at the first column.

       l      switch to next level

       L      switch to previous level

       n      search forewards

       N      search backwards

       o      select next output sound device

       p      place a bookmark

       q      quit daisy-player. The playing-point will be saved as bookmark.

       s      stop playing

       U,+    increase playing speed

NOTES

       Daisy-player  uses  the  sox-library  and  the ALSA sound-driver for audio-output. On some systems daisy-
       player quits with the message that the soundcard cannot be used. I don't know how to solve  this  problem
       yet, sorry.

       When  playing  an  Audio-CD skip-left and skip-right react a little late. The same for commands like 'U',
       'D' and HOME.

THANKS TO

       Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
              for the XML2 library.

       Kim Nilsson <kim.nilsson@no-substitute.com>

FILES

       ~/.daisy-player/
              This directory contains the bookmarks in XML-format. . Each file has the  name  of  the  book  and
              contains the name of the current item, the start-time of that item and the current level.

       ~/.daisy-player.rc
              This  file,  in  XML-format, contains the name of the desired audio device and the desired playing
              speed.

SEE ALSO

       cddbget(1), unar(1), eject(1), udisksctl(1)

AUTHOR

       Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C)2003-2015 Jos Lemmens <jos@jlemmens.nl>

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  it  under  the  terms  of  the  GNU
       General  Public  License  as  published  by  the  Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your
       option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be  useful,  but  WITHOUT
       ANY  WARRANTY;  without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the  GNU  General
       Public  License  along  with  this  program  (see  the  file COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software
       Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA

daisy-player-10.3                               07 February 2016                                 daisy-player(1)